English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 24

So she said: “Rope! rope! hang butcher; butcher won't kill ox; ox won't drink water; water won't quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.”

Who acts: butcher, Rope, ox, water, fire, dog · What happens: say, hang, not kill, not drink, not quench, not burn · To what, where: butcher, ox, water, fire, stick, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butcher, Rope, ox, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Rope	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Rope	punct
6	Rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hang	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 rope	punct
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Rope	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 rope	punct
10	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
11	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hang	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 kill	punct
13	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kill	nsubj
14	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 kill	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 kill	advmod
16	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
17	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kill	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 drink	punct
19	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drink	nsubj
20	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 drink	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 drink	advmod
22	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 kill	conj
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drink	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 quench	punct
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quench	nsubj
26	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 quench	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 quench	advmod
28	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quench	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 burn	punct
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burn	nsubj
32	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 burn	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 burn	advmod
34	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
35	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burn	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 stick	punct
37	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 burn	conj
38	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 beat	aux
39	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 beat	advmod
40	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 burn	parataxis
41	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beat	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 bite	punct
43	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bite	nsubj
44	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 bite	aux
45	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 bite	advmod
46	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
47	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bite	obj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 get	punct
49	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 get	nsubj
50	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 get	aux
51	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 get	advmod
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
53	over	over	ADP	_	55 stile	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 stile	det
55	stile	stile	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 get	obl
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 get	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 get	cc
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 get	nsubj
59	sha	sha	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 get	aux
60	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	61 get	advmod
61	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
62	home	home	ADV	_	61 get	advmod
63	to	to	ADP	_	65 night	case
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 to	punct
65	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 get	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	61 get	punct
67	”	"	PUNCT	_	61 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	butcher					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hang in a quote	infinitive	Rope	butcher				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butcher=Patient
3	not kill in a quote	future	butcher	ox				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
4	not drink in a quote	future	ox	water				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	not quench in a quote	future	water	fire				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer
6	not burn in a quote	future	fire	stick				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
7	stick in a quote	infinitive	fire not said here					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	not beat in a quote	future		dog				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme
9	not bite in a quote	future	dog	pig				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient
10	not get in a quote	future	piggy		the stile			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over stile=Destination
11	not get in a quote		butcher			night	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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